allocution | (noun) (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts | - |
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altocumulus | (noun) a cumulus cloud at an intermediate altitude of 2 or 3 miles | Synonyms: altocumulus cloud |
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autocue | (noun) a device that displays words for people to read | Synonyms: prompter |
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autofocus | (noun) an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically | - |
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binoculars | (noun) (plural) an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes | Synonyms: field glasses, opera glasses |
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circumlocution | (noun) a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things | Synonyms: ambage, periphrasis |
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(noun) an indirect way of expressing something | Synonyms: indirect expression |
cirrocumulus | (noun) a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples | Synonyms: cirrocumulus cloud |
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cocuswood | (noun) wood of the granadilla tree used for making musical instruments especially clarinets | Synonyms: cocoswood, granadilla wood |
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crocus | (noun) any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated | - |
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cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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diplodocus | (noun) a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America | - |
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docudrama | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: documentary, documentary film, infotainment |
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document | (noun) anything serving as a representation of a person's thinking by means of symbolic marks | - |
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(noun) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature) | Synonyms: papers, written document |
(noun) (computer science) a computer file that contains text (and possibly formatting instructions) using seven-bit ASCII characters | Synonyms: text file |
(noun) a written account of ownership or obligation | - |
documentary | (noun) a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event | Synonyms: docudrama, documentary film, infotainment |
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documentation | (noun) documentary validation | Synonyms: support |
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(noun) confirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence | Synonyms: certification, corroboration |
(noun) program listings or technical manuals describing the operation and use of programs | Synonyms: software documentation |
electrocution | (noun) killing by electric shock | - |
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(noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: burning |
electrocutioner | (noun) an executioner who uses electricity to kill the condemned person | - |
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elocution | (noun) an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
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elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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focus | (noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system | - |
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(noun) maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea | - |
(noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focusing, focussing |
(noun) a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section | - |
(noun) a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges | Synonyms: focal point |
(noun) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism | Synonyms: focal point, nidus |
(noun) special emphasis attached to something | Synonyms: stress |
focusing | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalisation, focalization |
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(noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focussing |
focussing | (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centering, centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing |
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inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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inoculum | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculant |
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interlocutor | (noun) a person who takes part in a conversation | Synonyms: conversational partner |
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(noun) the performer in the middle of a minstrel line who engages the others in talk | Synonyms: middleman |
jocularity | (noun) activity characterized by good humor | Synonyms: jest, joke |
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(noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocosity |
(noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocundity |
jocundity | (noun) a feeling of facetious merriment | Synonyms: jocularity |
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linocut | (noun) a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
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(noun) a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum | - |
locule | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: loculus |
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loculus | (noun) a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal | Synonyms: locule |
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locum | (noun) someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession | Synonyms: locum tenens |
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locus | (noun) the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions | - |
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(noun) the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) | Synonyms: locale, venue |
(noun) the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome | - |
locust | (noun) migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae | - |
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(noun) any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae | Synonyms: locust tree |
(noun) hardwood from any of various locust trees | - |
locution | (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: expression, saying |
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monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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ocular | (noun) combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments | Synonyms: eyepiece |
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oculism | (noun) the craft of an oculist | - |
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oculist | (noun) a medical doctor specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the eye | Synonyms: eye doctor, ophthalmologist |
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(noun) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses | Synonyms: optometrist |
oculomotor | (noun) supplies extrinsic muscles of the eye | Synonyms: nervus oculomotorius, oculomotor nerve, third cranial nerve |
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oculus | (noun) the organ of sight | Synonyms: eye, optic |
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procural | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procurance, procurement |
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procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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procurator | (noun) (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes | - |
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(noun) a person authorized to act for another | Synonyms: placeholder, proxy |
procurement | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurance |
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procurer | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce |
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(noun) someone who obtains or acquires | Synonyms: securer |
procuress | (noun) a woman pimp | - |
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refocusing | (noun) focusing again | - |
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tubocurarine | (noun) a toxic alkaloid found in certain tropical South American trees that is a powerful relaxant for striated muscles | Synonyms: curare |
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